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hereabouts en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From hereabout + -s (See adverbial genitive).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Near here.
    • The people hereabouts, sir, would seem to dispense with street illumination, and it is very dark tonight. 1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:
    • How far might you call yourselves from the marshes, hereabouts? Not above a mile, I reckon? 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter V, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 64:
    • Hereabouts is Knockupworth, where the line deviates from the canal course. 1955 February, M. F. Barbey, “From Carlisle to Silloth”, in Railway Magazine, page 95:

Relateds

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Translations (19)

sv häromkring (near here) · sv här i närheten (near here) · de hierherum (near here) · fi täälläpäin (near here) · de hier herum (near here) · nv kǫ́ǫ́ (near here) · cy nid nepell o fan hyn (near here) · sv här i trakten (near here) · gd a-bhos (near here) · ga anseo timpeall (near here) · ga thart anseo (near here) · es por acá (near here) · es por aquí (near here) · de in dieser Gegend (near here) · cy oddi amgylch (near here) · de hierorts (near here) · hu errefelé (near here) · fi näillä main (near here) · es por esta zona (near here)